Here’s our fantasy premier league best fixtures GW9 article with the GW9-14 fixture ease schedule. We look at the teams with the best fixtures from over the next 3 and 6 gameweeks There’s also some player suggestions with their basic stats and their upcoming fixtures.
fantasy premier league best fixtures GW9 – the fixture ease schedule
We’ve also added good fixture clumps at the end for you to be aware of before transfers in and out.
An introduction
My intention at the moment is to take the fixture difficulty ranking from the Official FPL site with some slight adjustments. That schedule doesn’t differentiate between attack and defence and is an overall ranking. You will see their fixture difficulty when you look at a player in detail on the FPL site.
The schedule below uses the official rankings to rank them from easiest at the top to hardest at the bottom. The order of the teams is for GW9-14. The figure in the right hand column is the ranking from from GW9-11
FE Rank | Team | FE Rank |
GW9-14 | GW9-11 | |
1 | Liverpool | 2 |
2 | Newcastle | 4 |
3 | Brighton | 8 |
4 | Chelsea | 9 |
5 | Leicester | 10 |
6 | Huddersfield | 13 |
7 | Man City | 5 |
8 | Cardiff | 14 |
9 | Fulham | 1 |
10 | Watford | 7 |
11 | Wolves | 17 |
12 | Everton | 6 |
13 | Man Utd | 11 |
14 | West Ham | 12 |
15 | Southampton | 16 |
16 | Arsenal | 18 |
17 | Burnley | 20 |
18 | Bournemouth | 3 |
19 | Spurs | 15 |
20 | C Palace | 19 |
So here I give attacking and defensive player suggestions for players with good 6 week and 3 week fixtures. This week it’s Liverpool and Newcastle
Liverpool
With Liverpool the front 3 are the obvious target although I suspect you will have to live with rotation and early substitutions from time to time.
£12.8m Mid Salah has scored 3 goals in 2 assists in 8 starts at a PP90 of 5.6. This is a pretty ordinary return rate to say the least and worryingly he has yet to get a bonus point. What you’re hanging onto at the moment is a set of fantastic underlying stats and some great fixtures.
£9.9m Mid Mane has scored 4 goals and 0 assists in 8 starts at a PP90 of 6.2. He has blanked in his last 4 although those games have included Spurs, Chelsea and Man City. Again very good underlying stats and he has at least been able to earn bonus points when returning. Has averaged nearly 90 minutes though each game which is a positive.
£9.4m Fwd Firmino has scored 2 goals and 2 assists in 8 starts at a PP90 of 4.6. Blanked in the last 3 games and returns are poor. Underlying stats are nothing to write home about either but that’s not untypical for him.
Defence is interesting at the moment. Lovren starting v Man City has created some uncertainty. Will he keep his place over Gomez and will Alexander Arnold return to RB. The safe choice with attacking potential now is £6.3m Robertson.
Huddersfield (A)
Cardiff (H)
Arsenal (A)
Fulham (H)
Watford (A)
Everton (H)
Newcastle
Hard to know who the first choice striker is at the moment and with Kenedy an injury doubt that only leaves Matt Ritchie as an attacking option. However I’ve covered Kenedy anyway subject to injury news
£5.9m Mid Ritchie has got just the 1 assist in 7 starts at a PP90 of 2.7. To make matters worse he has averaged 76 minutes per game and only played 90 minutes once. His underlying stats don’t give much hope either. He does have some set piece representation but it’s a sign of the paucity of options at Newcastle.
£4.9m Mid Kenedy has got just the 1 goal and no assists in 6 starts plus 1 as sub at a PP90 of 3.2. He is an injury doubt so needs monitoring. Again Underlying stats aren’t helpful
£4.5m defender Yedlin is my defensive choice.
Brighton (H)
Southampton (A)
Watford (H)
Bournemouth (H)
Burnley (A)
West Ham (H)
Some good short term future fixture clumps
Use these to plan transfers in and watchouts on transfers out
Fulham
GW9 Cardiff (A)
GW10 Bournemouth (H)
GW11 Huddersfield (A)
Think about Mitrovic and Schurrle
Chelsea
GW10 Burnley (A)
GW11 Crystal Palace (H)
GW12 Everton (H)
Think about Hazard, Alonso or Luiz
Leicester
GW10 West Ham (H)
GW11 Cardiff (A)
GW12 Burnley (H)
Think about Vardy or Maddison
West Ham
GW11 Burnley (H)
GW12 Huddersfield (A)
Think about Arnautovic or Yarmalenko or Anderson
Wolves
GW13 Huddersfield (H)
GW14 Cardiff (A)
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